Zipper foot woe

The invisible zipper foot arrived, and while it did fit the snap on ankle on the machine, the hole in the foot wasn't aligned properly for my machine, and the needle hit the foot. :(

So I am sending it back, and I have spent a couple hours searching in vain for other options. I am pretty sure a generic foot is not an option. The actual presser foot made for my machine is forty bucks on Amazon (and pretty much everywhere else). The absolute lowest price I found it for is $25 at sewing machines plus.

So the questions I need to ask myself are:

1.) How annoying is it to just screw/unscrew the foot I have?

2.) Do I have $25 (plus shipping) burning a hole in my pocket?

3.) How much longer am I likely to keep my current sewing machine, or buy another Husqvarna?

The answers so far?

1.) Pretty annoying.

2.) No.

3.) Maybe another 5 or 10 years, or maybe one year. It has had problems in the past and I have never been super thrilled with it. And I am NOT buying another Husqvarna. This whole ordeal has already proven that the parts are way too expensive and generics won't work. When I bought the machine, ten years ago, I just assumed that $15-40 was what you paid for presser feet. Plus the two local Jo-Anns where the Husqvarna dealerships used to be have closed and the stores have switched over to Singers.

So I guess it makes sense not to buy a new foot. Ugh. I suppose if I am that annoyed with the screw-on foot I can always try inserting the invisible zips with a regular zipper foot.